Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King tells the fascinating, bizarrely true story of Kristina, Queen of Sweden. Born to a doting father and mad mother in 1626, thought to be a boy, Christina was dropped down the stairs as a baby, declared …Read more
Kai (Garcia Bernal) mysteriously appears from a river and shows up on a small family farm. He is instantly taken with the farmer’s daughter, Vania (Alice Braga), and vows to help them defend their farm against evil mercenaries out to drive them away …Read more
Tensions are already running high when we meet the Parker family, recently transplanted to the remote Australian town of Nathgari following an incident involving precocious teenage daughter Lily (Maddison Brown). Each family member is struggling to a …Read more
In Advantageous, writers Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim imagine an intriguing near-future where rapid technological and economic advancement has left humanity in its wake. The middle-aged workforce find themselves redundant in a society where they …Read more
Mark and Jay Duplass have a reputation for creating organic, character-driven dramedies that chart the often complex nature of everyday relationships, and Manson Family Vacation which they produced is no exception. Written and Directed by J Davis, a …Read more
Matthew Yeager’s feature debut, Valedictorian, is a spare, lyrical film about the passage of time and what it means, and costs, to truly engage with our own lives. The first half of the film simply follows Ben (Brian Dell), a quiet, distant Brooklyni …Read more
In the actual reality of the real world, Jamie Block is a New York-based financial advisor by day and anti-folk musician by night. He even released an album on Capitol records back in 1998. Now he is trying to make a comeback. Enter Onur Tukel, an ea …Read more
Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s God Bless the Child is a thing of rare beauty and creative courage. Sensitively written and tenderly shot by Machoian, using only natural light, God Bless follows five siblings as they spend an idle summer’s d …Read more
Kyle Rideout’s Eadweard is a painstakingly beautiful portrait of Eadweard Muybridge (Michael Eklund); an early pioneer of photography and inadvertent grandfather of cinema. Fittingly, Tony Mirza’s cinematography is exquisite and precise from the firs …Read more
Rooftop Films kicked off their 2015 Summer Series with This is What We Mean by Short Films, screened simultaneously on two rooftops and a courtyard at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. If anyone should know what they mean by short films, it’s R …Read more
